BruceH

I've also been listening to Fountains of Wayne lately (obsessively, in my case). Just discovered them late last month when a 1999 interview was repeated on NPR. Their new album, Welcome Interstate Managers, is a genre-hopping pop-rock masterpiece that I can't seem to go a day without listening to at least once. Their second album, Utopia Parkway, is full of good songs as well. "It Must Be Summer" has 'hit single' written all over it. Why these guys don't absolutely rule the radio is beyond me! Going to see them tonight at the Fillmore.

It's not just you.

Big thumbs-up to the Dexter, but it's the Blakey that gets my vote!

"I love the smell of RVG in the morning. Smells like...jazz." Fickle Sonance: I thing the MUSIC is good.

You are so right! How could I forget True Blue? This baby should be in print for all time.

I really like Doo-Wop, although I havn't listened to any in a long time. Favorite group: The Five Royales.

Right on, B3-er! It's hard not to see being inundated with music at all times in our society as devaluing and debasing music. Why wouldn't people become desensitized to music if they hear it in the malls, restaurants, even the sidewalks sometimes. As for the whole "relaxing music" bugaboo, I think a lot of people who don't listen to jazz and don't know much about it tend to assume that all jazz is like the music they would hear on one of the "soft jazz" radio stations. That stuff may be relaxing and "laid back," but whether it can truly qualify as jazz rather than muzak is arguable to say the least.

Personally, I think the sound on the Dexter and Henderson is just fine the way it is. But I've long seen the "RVG" label more as a marketing technique. The good thing is that, supposedly, once a title is on the RVG roster Blue Note is going to keep it in print for the forseeable future. So far, they have. So I like hearing that a favorite title is being RVGed because that means it's saved from the deletion ax. That's what I hate about the Connoisseur's: try finding one two years after it's release. Jeeze! I realize it's a business and all, and BN needs to make money, but I'd like as much of the music as possible to be as available as possible. If the RVG dodge serves that end (and so far, it does) then I'm all for it. So: An RVG of Davis Cup and Ready For Freddie, please.

Ed's got a good point, but I'm looking forward to Adam's Apple. Somehow I think it will sound great in RVG-phonic sound.

I am in complete, 100%, thumbs-up agreement with you, late. Tippin' the Scales, YES!!! Also, Serenade To A Soul Sister, by Horace Silver, Chicken Shack, Soothsayer, and, lest we forget, Davis Cup (I think it was an early Conn. but is long OOP.)

For me it was a three way tie between the Hill, Young, and Mobley----so I voted for the Morgan. Come October I'm all over every one of these, except for the Rouse. A really outstanding batch of Conns!

This is bound to fail, but meanwhile it will remind people just how much contempt for the consumer Disney has. It's good to be reminded of that once in a while.

What Rooster Said about the Naxos label!!! Check them out. Here's some names: Carl Ruggles Charles Tomlinson Griffes Conlan Nancarrow (he lived the last five decades of his life in Mexico, but still counts as an American composer in my book)

Then as far as prostate cancer is concerned, I'm going to live forever.

Looks good! I'm on this like white on rice.

Agree with you bigtime, Montq. My worry is that the coming time of shakeout and chaos in the music industry which the article predicts may be hard on artists, especially those (like jazz musicians) who never made a lot of money in the first place. But we'll just have to wait and see.

These are the albums that got me into Stitt, and the 32Jazz two-fer is still me go-to CD for a quick hit of Stitt. Great AOW choice!

I'm waiting for the MP3 exabyte file.

In the words of Spongebob Squarepants: I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready...

Congratulations!

I think it was Rooster's "Album of the Month" for April!

Damn nice voting list, Rooser! Personally, I'd have voted for the Byrd/Watkins Transition Sessions for best re-issue of the year, but hey, to each his own.

Yeah, if anything they seem to be getting better.

When, when, WHENis this baby coming out?

Amen to that.